Covarrubias received a Bachelor of Music Composition degree in 2006 from the National School of Music at the UNAM in Mexico City. She earned a Master’s degree in Musicology, Creation, and Society in 2010 from the University of Paris 8 (France), where she specialized in Computer-assisted composition and Ethnomusicology.In 2016, she received a Ph.D. degree...

SOFTlab is a design studio based in New York City. The studio was created by Michael Szivos shortly after receiving a graduate degree in architecture from the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation at Columbia University. The studio has since been involved in the design and production of projects across almost every medium, from...

_STROY is a young multidisciplinary visual studio bringing a variety of graphic work to life with big emphasis on freshness, authenticity, and relevance. The group was founded as a project of the Technical University in Liberec and other contemporary culture connoisseurs from the north. From its very beginning in 2014, the visual studio _STROY has...

Last week, Audiovisual City had the extreme pleasure to attend a press conference for Sonar +D, where Semiconductor, otherwise known as British artists Ruth Jarman and Joe Gerhardt, pioneers of the digital and natural world, explained their most recent project ‘Earthworks’ to small room of keen journalists. Their work takes scientific data from nature (earthquakes,...

Inspired by travels and everyday life, the audiovisual productions of SATI mirror the duality betwen nature and urban places. Moving from ambient electronica to minimal techno throughout their different audiovisual projects, the music of SATI is always immersive and cinematographic. Pioneer of the french VJ scene, Jesse Lucas is the founder of the VJFRANCE website....

Gregory Lasserre and Anais met den Ancxt are two artists who work together as a duo with the name Scenocosme. They live in France. They develop the concept of interactivity in their artworks by using multiple kind of expression : art, technology, sounds and architecture. They mix art and digital technology in order to find substances...

Due to a request from a Gothenburg nightclub to run visuals, Startsladd was formed in January 2008. The first set that we created, that took about a week to perfect, was the start of a brand new VJ crew on the Swedish West Coast. Following this first set, they’ve continued to produce recorded material that they’ve mixed...

Sphunkgrafix is the alter-ego of Joel Martínez Villena. He is an audiovisual artist based in Barcelona. He has a Higher National Diploma in Computing and Multimedia Design at ESI (Escola de Sistemes Informàtics) Barcelona. He has a Graduate Digital Video performed at the University Pompeu Fabra (Barcelona). He started in the late 90’s and early...

Skynoise.net is the web-home of Jean Poole. He’s particularly interested in real-time video, and the relationship between sound and image, especially in a performance context. Lately this has included an interest in projection mapping, and multi-screen projections. Nowadays he’s a freelance in a Fitzroy studio (Melbourne, Australia) and work on a range of video and...

Synthetics aka Ben Cook is a musician and audio-visual artist based in London. An original member of the Instructions VJ collective he has been working closely with its members and on independent AV activities since 2003. Over the years he has performed at VJ-Festival Erlangen, Volt, The Flow Festival, Pixelvärk, Plektrum Festival of Visual Sound,...

In their work of vjing, the 5 members of Suffix collective, (based in Lucerne, Switzerland) focus on an optimal visual translation of music in the event location. The unity of image and sound is considered a priority and their visual repertoire ranges from classical single-frame stop-motion film to real complex animated 3D motion graphics. Suffix...

Sigma6 is a Geneva based company whose aim is to experiment in the fields of visual creation. They make music videos and custom experimental installations for customers large and small. They see the future like a playground, trying new technologies and new ways of mixing different kind of media.Sigma6 is Eric Morzier and Florian Pittet....